Yes, it is always about Al Gore's "Moral Imperative" and not ours

No wonder he has fallen out of love with politics, because politics just doesn't get it. He is already fulfilling HIS moral imperative, and anyone who states that the presidency of this military industrial complex system can do more better (which I have seen typed here thousands of times with nothing else backing it up) have some proof to back it up instead of just the same soundbite sentence, because as far as I can see for the last thirty years it ain't DONE NOTHING but exacerbate the crisis. To me that sentence has now become nothing but a soundbite used by those who only want him in this mess for their own selfish reasons.

Therefore, if you think the presidency is so damned effective on this crisis then prove it. Prove Mr. Gore or anyone would even get a bill worth signing from this bought and sold mealy mouthed Congress that would even be enforced. Prove we will even have a majority come next year. Prove that there will be a bill calling for a 90% reduction in greenhouse gases, and that coal companies will automatically decide through some moral epiphany that they will not build any new ones without sequestering the co2 because they suddenly grew a GD conscience and don't care about profits.

Prove that Congress will forego the HUGE perks they give to the nuclear industry in lieu of giving parity to alternative energy in the manner in which it MUST HAPPEN NOW. Prove that there will be a groundswell of citizens in this country who will suddenly undertstand the URGENCY of what is going on and take it upon themselves to demand change on every government level and make changes in their lives that actually make a difference which MUST HAPPEN FIRST. Because without all of that and that is only the beginning, the same sentence spewed out of desperation without reason means absolutely NOTHING.

Even if we stopped all of co2 emitting this moment it would still go on. So it goes BEYOND this country to the global community where Al Gore is MORE than fulfilling that moral imperative. Of course, political operatives and bloggers who now use him to get people to read their columns calling on him to run without looking at all the other points seem to just do that as a reflex... and I wonder, maybe to cover up the fact they really aren't doing anything themselves?

Mr. Gore has no moral imperative other than the one is fulfilling now. It is WE who are failing on ours.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/11/news/economy/energy_consumption/?postversion=2007101113

And it IS the lynchpin now in the progress this movement makes.
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Gore glams up global warming fight -- again
Rising prices have done little to curb consumption. Can a $100 million ad campaign from Al Gore do the trick?
By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMoney.com staff writer
October 11 2007: 1:18 PM EDT


NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Whether it's for national security reasons or to protect the environment, nearly everyone agrees the nation should use energy more efficiently.

Yet despite soaring energy prices and calls from the political left and right, energy use is going nowhere but up. By 2030 it's expected to jump 35 to 40 percent in the U.S. alone.

Enter Al Gore.

Since making his 2006 global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," the man has been front and center raising awareness around climate change.

Now he's embarking on a public advertising campaign estimated to cost between $100 and $200 million a year, one of the largest public service campaigns in history. Expect to see television commercials, newspaper spreads and Internet ads popping up in a few months time.

Funded by donations and proceeds from "An Inconvenient Truth," the campaign will focus on convincing people that they can do something about global warming.

"It's about communicating the urgency and solvability of the climate crises," said Brian Hardwick, a spokesman for the Alliance for Climate Change, an environmental group founded and chaired by the former vice president. "So will demand the kind of change we need."

The campaign won't focus solely on energy - it will also address other factors, from deforestation to methane from cows, that contribute to global warming.

But carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas, and most of the carbon dioxide emissions generated by humans come from burning fossil fuels.

The ads won't endorse any specific legislation in Congress - such as bills to raise fuel economy standards, cap carbon emissions or require utilities to buy a certain percentage of renewable power.

Rather, it will attempt to convince people that global warming is not an unstoppable phenomenon that is now out of their control. It will aim to convince people we have the technology and the ability to avoid global warming and the disasters that scientists say it will create, like crop-killing droughts, city-destroying floods. The hope is to motivate people to pressure their political and social leaders to make the necessary policy changes.

"We have all the answers we need," said Hardwick. We want to "reframe the issue as an opportunity, not a sacrifice."

The campaign will be created by the Richmond-Va.-based Martin Agency, the same outfit behind Geico's successful caveman ads and UPS' "What can brown do for you." Martin was also recently chosen as Wal-Mart's (Charts, Fortune 500) lead agency.

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So you don't think Mr. Gore is fulfilling his moral imperative? You don't think the world on the whole is failing theirs? Everythiing is just wonderful in DC for you? No obstacles even though history and reality prove otherwise? There is no military industrial complex? You must have been reading a far different post than the one I typed...And MY false support? Who the hell do you think you are here? Why don't you make it YOUR moral imperative to reflect on your own motivations. EVERY QUESTION in this OP is VALID and ones I am SURE Mr. Gore himself has wondered about regarding this process. But since you don't have answers to those questions you attack the premise. Typical. So thank you for proving that running for the presidency in this system as it stands now gives NO GUARANTEE that he could do more to move US on this crisis as he can now from his position out here, especially after winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He now has a WORLD platform and pulpit, and I am very hopeful about that because I believe that is the place now from where he and we will see the most effective results. What is more important to you? Actually mitigating this crisis, or business as usual? What nerve.

and no concern about re-election, could do quite a lot. Look at Bush. Not too bright, doesn't speak well, certainly not a man of ideas, but he has had the courage to Act forcefully on the basis of his limited understanding and the unshakeable conviction that he's right. He has been able to do more damage than anyone imagined possible. If we had a leader with a deep understanding of the issues, and a strong sense of what needs to be done, who who knows what might be accomplished.